Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Night Wind. Ranch Foreman Locy first became Preacher Locy at the Holy Land Bible Knowledge Society in Los Angeles. Then he spent 30 years barnstorming the U.S. and Canada-the last 19 of them in a trailer-teaching the Bible with the help of pictures. When Clinton and his wife Georgia settled down a couple of years ago in West Richland, Wash. (pop. 1,000), they set about starting a Visual Bible Training Center...
...juice and vegetables, refreshing himself with a wet towel around his head, relieving himself at the back of the building, and talking into the mike all the time. After 24 hours he got to the Book of Psalms, and Georgia brought him a plate of hot food from their trailer home next door. Spooning in some beans, Preacher Locy momentarily forgot what he was there for. "Say something there, boy," said Apostle Heminger. "I'm hungry," said Preacher Locy...
TRUCK MANUFACTURERS are in for some competition from the railroads. Burlington Railroad, which makes most of its own freight cars but still has idle space in its shops, will make a newly designed highway trailer (24-ft. aluminum van type) as a pilot model for a production run of several hundred to try out on its Burlington Truck Lines (812 trucks and trailers...
...pension funds to buy into companies is progressing. A.F.L.'s International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has just paid out $1,920,000 for 16,000 shares and control of the American Standard Life Insurance Co., and Dave Beck's Teamsters, who invested $1,500,000 in Fruehauf Trailer Co., then bought $1,000,000 worth of Montgomery Ward stock, now plans to spend still another million for 12,100 more shares of Ward stock...
...route swerved through the traffic-clogged heart of the Ruhr, a blinding snowstorm covered the road with an eight-inch blanket of snow in a single hour. On the worst stretch, co-drivers had to run ahead to guide their partners through a maze of stalled and jackknifed trailer trucks...